My Cooking Demo Blog

 Sunday, 19th June 15th week - Activities During 15th week, we did our biggest task of the cooking demo project😍. It was the physical awareness session of MOH office at Pannala area. On 15th of June, our group went to the Pannala MOH & did it as our best. Our madam Dr. Thushanthi Perera & our demonstrators miss Mrs. Showmiya Mahendran & Mrs. Michelle Sahabandu participated for this session. It was a great opportunity that we got in our lives because we could to speak to the community (mothers) & inform them about the nutrition of their children who are under 5 years.  We did all the activities as the agenda that we prepared in previous week. Our madam & our demonstrator miss gave their fullest support to success our program on that day. And also, my part which I had to speak about the nutrition of the toddlers was done as my best 💪in the discussion session. Memories on 15th June, Physical awareness session of Pannala MOH office; Describing the poster that...

 Sunday, 12th June 14th week - Activities In this week, the agenda of the awareness session that we decided to conduct at the MOH office of Pannala area was prepared discussing with the group members. It was as following; Agenda: 🌸 (Moderator - Buddhika) (10.00 am- 10.15 am) Welcome speech -  shehani (10.15 am-11 am) discussion session      - infants - pathumi      - toddlers - chathu         - presch-Ruwanthini  (11.00 am - 11.15 am) Q&A session - demonstrator miss (11.15am - 11.45 am)  Meal demonstration        - shehani- pumpkin puree      - sandhuni- Nutri balls      - sanghika- fruit kebab      - Niwantha- fish Nugget (11.45 am) collecting feedbacks       Pathumi, Azka (11.50 am - 12 pm) Vote of thanks - Niwantha (12.00pm)   Refereshments Azka, Budhika And also, during this week, we bought the ingredients that need to...

 Sunday, 05th June 13th week - Activities When 13th week of our cooking demo project, there was one week more to plan our physical awareness session & its' activities. Therefore, in this week we had to think & plan the ingredients that need for preparing the recipes that we planned for cooking demonstration session. Our group members listed down the ingredients & planned to buy them from the market. As assigned the members for the main activities of the awareness session, I had to get ready for the awareness session of nutrition of the children under 5 years. The category that I had to prepare was toddlers who were in 1-3 years in age. Therefore, during this week I gathered information related to the nutrition of toddlers & their feeding practices. Uploading a new recipe video for the Tots' kitchen YouTube channel was done during this week too. In short, the activities that we did during 13th week; Planning & getting ready for preparing the recipes of the co...

 Sunday, 29th May 12th week - Activities During 12th week, we could to print our poster after checking its' corrections. In this week, our group leader divided us to the sub groups of main activities that decided to do in our final program. Poster that we created; And also, we discussed about the main activities that we should do in further details. The activities that we planned to do; 1. Informing the mothers that come to the awareness session about the nutrition of the children under 5 years.          In here, three members were assigned to do it as nutrition of infants, toddlers & preschoolers. 2. Cooking demonstration session 🍡🍯🍪preparing four recipes such as nutri balls, fish nuggets, pumpkin puree & fruit kebab. Nutri Balls Fish Nuggets Fruit Kebab Pumpkin puree 3. Q & A session - In here, we planned to give answers for the questions that mothers have discussing with our dietician. But unfortunately, we could not contact her. However, ...

 Sunday, 22nd May 11th week - Activities In 11th week, we planned our budget & listed down the things that we had to buy & pay while doing our final program. According to that, some plans were little bit changed. Not only that, we thought to complete our poster designing & printing during this week. Uploading a new nutritious recipe video to the YouTube channel was happened during this week too. I tried to contact another resource person during this week also. Planning & discussing about the final program were continued in this week. These are the tasks that we did during our 11th week of the project. Within them, we spent a busy time period.

 Sunday, 15th May 10th week - Activities When starting 10th week of our project, we had to do more activities that related to our final awareness program. From this week we started to line-up the main activities that we should do in upcoming weeks. Within these things, we wanted to design our poster. One of our group members did it using Canva.  Due to the current situation of our country, we happened to face some problems. The dates that we fixed to do our program was postponed & again we contacted MOH & our dietician to fix a date. But unfortunately, we could not contact our dietician on the fixed date by the MOH. Then, we faced a problem how to manage this situation & find a solution. I had to contact another person & I tried my best during this week & planned to do it in upcoming weeks also. Within that, the new recipe video for YouTube channel was created & uploaded during this week sharing promotional post for it as usual via whatsapp. In short, a...

 Sunday, 01st May 9th week - Activities During this week, we had to design our poster that planned to display at the moment of the awareness session. Then we decided the information which we should include & found out the relevant information & photographs. In here, my duty was preparing the details of the poster & giving it to design as suitable. So, I did my part very well finding & adding information that other group members gave. Finally, at the end of this week we could to prepare the draft of the poster. Most important thing that we had to do was checking the corrections of the information of the poster whether they are correct or not. Therefore, after getting our madam's comments about the draft of the poster, I sent it to our contacted dietician Mrs.Thiloka Sammani Hettiarachchi & got her help to success our task. As usual, during this week a new recipe video was uploaded to the Tots' kitchen YouTube channel sharing promotional posters via whatsapp. ...

 Sunday, 24th April 8th week - Activities In this week, we had to prepare & present our progression meeting presentation. Therefore, we line-uped the activities that we did in previous weeks discussing in our whatsapp group. After discussing, we started to prepare our presentation. Then on 20th April, we submitted it.   During this week , the nutritious recipe videos were also uploaded to the Tots' kitchen YouTube channel sharing promotional posts via whatsapp status & Tots' kitchen group. The special thing that happened in this week was, I could to create my recipe video for infants during this week & to upload to the YouTube channel😍. Shared message via whatsapp status & Tots' kitchen group for my recipe video -  Sprats powder for infants "😍 Are you searching ways to make your tiny ones grow stronger?🤩  We have the solution for that! 🎏 Sprats powder🍛  (From the age: 6 months onwards) https://youtu.be/nGKXWNFwQxc Add it to their meals ...

 Sunday,3rd April 7th week - Activities Within starting 7th week of our cooking demo project, we had promotional work to promote our recipes via our YouTube channel. For this, posters were created by us to share through whatsapp status & Tots' kitchen whatsapp group that created for the mothers who participated with us for our survey. From this week, we started to upload nutritious recipes for infants, toddlers & pre schoolers separately to the Tots' kitchen YouTube channel. One recipe video was uploaded weekly after giving a promotion for it sharing a poster that created for it through the whatsapp status & also through the whatsapp group. Some posters that shared via whatsapp Tots' kitchen group & whatsapp status; Some shared messages through the Tots' kitchen whatsapp group for our promotional work; "🤩💃Our recipe videos for your lovable kiddies will be available from tomorrow in our channel 🤩💃 Get into our channel & make your little one...

 Sunday,27th March 6th week - Activities When the 6th week of our project was started, we had to start lot of activities as we discussed. The main task was getting permission from the MOH office at Pannala. For that, our group prepared the permission letter & it was signed by our madam. Then during this week, we could to contact MOH madam at Pannala area & to get the permission. As we wished, they gave the permission us to do an awareness session about 2hours. We planned to do this with a resource person. I contacted a registered dietician named as Mrs.Thiloka Sammanai Hettiarachchi.   We planned a method to share the nutritious recipes among the mothers who have children under 5 years old. At the beginning of our project we wanted to create a YouTube channel & share our recipes via it. But we had to ask the preference of the mothers. Therefore in this week, we planned to do a telephone survey creating a questionnaire. 1st we contacted 5 mothers from each group me...